A serial founder effect model for human settlement out of Africa Omkar Deshpande, Serafim Batzoglou, Marcus W. Feldman, L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza Abstract The...
J Hum Evol. 2008 Sep 26. Indications of habitat association of Australopithecus robustus in the Bloubank Valley, South Africa. de Ruiter DJ, Sponheimer M,...
Bloglines user AnneGilbert (avgilbert@...) has sent this item to you, with the following personal message: All: I think many of you may be interested...
J Hum Evol. 2008 Oct 6.[Epub ahead of print] Early evidence of the genus Homo in East Asia. Zhu RX, Potts R, Pan YX, Yao HT, LĂĽ LQ, Zhao X, Gao X, Chen LW, ...
Folia Primatol (Basel). 2008;79(2):103-10. Epub 2007 Nov 1. New records on prey capture and meat eating by bonobos at Lui Kotale, Salonga National Park,...
I thought I had posted my comments here, but apparently, I didn't. Here are two messages I posted about this, back on August 30, 2007, in my Flores_Man group: ...
BBC NEWS African chimps decline 'alarming' The population of the endangered West African chimpanzees in Ivory Coast has fallen by about 90% in less than 20...
Thanks for posting this, Marcel. Very interesting. Of course, an alternate explanation, which has not been dismissed by any evidence that I'm aware of, and is...
27 October, 2008 Fire out of Africa: a key to the migration of prehistoric man, says Hebrew University archaeological researcher The ability to make fire...
Now, if a creature is sitting around, cracking two pieces of rock against each other, for a million years or so, wouldn't there be sparks , fire and the...
... Note, this is potentially very important, when considering the implications of gross genetic differences between humans (what they've decided to call, CNV,...
Oops, 1993. ... transcription is discussed in an old -1973 or so- copy of Klug and Cummings I got at the thrift store, and also alternate splicing. I think...
... Here's something else that ties into the issue of CNV, degrees of human variation, and the hypothetical age of the human LCA population. There may be a...
Hi John, That's what I understand... But now they have a better view of it, and the percentage estimate (of genes that can produce multiple products) is...
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-11/amon-dbh103008.php Death by hyperdisease How DNA detective work explains the extinction of Christmas Island's ...
The documentary is accessible here: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/documentaries/interactive/hobbit/ I found the above link on the Afarensis blog, which has an entry...
A Rant about Non-Geek Geek Reporting Mike Brotherton -- Hard SF Writer November 7th, 2008 It does tie in to Homo floresiensis ("The Hobbit.") Here's the link:...
Dan: I"m not familiar with Dan Brotherton's work, partly because "hard s-f" doesn't interest me that much. And I must say that essay does raise some...
When viewing the beginning of this documentary, I appear to have, surprisingly, discovered LB1's face -- before it was removed from her skull. (Recall that,...